svg_stack combines multiple SVG elements into a single SVG element. It can be called from the command line (less flexible) or called from the Python interface (more flexible).
This tool exists primarily exists to automatically composite SVG files into a single SVG file that remains compatible with Inkscape. If compatibility with Inkscape is not required, one can create an svg file with multiple, nested <svg> elements. Inkscape, however, doesn't seem to handle nested <svg> elements particularly well. Thus, this tool was born.
For example, given the files red_ball.svg and blue_triangle.svg:
svg_stack.py --direction=h --margin=100 red_ball.svg blue_triangle.svg > shapes.svg
will stack them horizontally with a 100 px margin between them. The result will be in a file called shapes.svg.
A Qt like API provides more advanced layout capabilities. For example:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import svg_stack as ss
doc = ss.Document()
layout1 = ss.HBoxLayout()
layout1.addSVG('red_ball.svg',alignment=ss.AlignTop|ss.AlignHCenter)
layout1.addSVG('blue_triangle.svg',alignment=ss.AlignCenter)
layout2 = ss.VBoxLayout()
layout2.addSVG('red_ball.svg',alignment=ss.AlignCenter)
layout2.addSVG('red_ball.svg',alignment=ss.AlignCenter)
layout2.addSVG('red_ball.svg',alignment=ss.AlignCenter)
layout1.addLayout(layout2)
doc.setLayout(layout1)
doc.save('qt_api_test.svg')
- License: MIT (see source code of svg_stack for full license)
- Author: Andrew D. Straw
- Contact: strawman@astraw.com
- Homepage: http://github.com/astraw/svg_stack
- Issue tracker: http://github.com/astraw/svg_stack/issues
Usage: svg_stack FILE1 [FILE2] [...] [options]
concatenate SVG files
This will concatenate FILE1, FILE2, ... to a new svg file printed to
stdout.
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--margin=MARGIN size of margin (in any units, px default)
--direction=DIRECTION
horizontal or vertical (or h or v)